Hat-frame machine.



l yPATENTED JULY 28, 11.908. A. 8. HOERMANN. HAT FRAME MACHINE.

v `AIPPLIQAFIION FILED 00T. 24.1907.

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PATENTED JULYzs, 190s. A. '5. HOBRMANN.

4HAT FRAME-MACHINE. l@PBLIMTION FILM? 00T. 24,1907.

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through ALFRED E. HOFFMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. v

HAT-FRAME MACHINE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application ledOctober 251, 1907. Serial No. 398,960.

enth street, in the borough of Manhattan, in

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and use which the following is a specification. n

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of machines which are particularly designed and adapted for use in the manufacture of the frames of ladies hats, and the object of the invention is to a machine of this general and of a compact, strong .and

mOIe COIIVBIH the machine as regards the uniformity of the work accomplished thereon are attained without requiring any particular skill on the` part of the operator.

The invention consists, in certain novel features of the construction, and combinations aiid arrangements ofthe several kparts of the improved hat frame machine, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is renderedsimpler, cheaper and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which serve to illustrate the invention Figure 1 is a side elevation showing a hat frame machine constructed according to the invention with a number of the wire guiding or supporting devices removed therefrom; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine as shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing one of the wire guiding or supporting devices removed from the machine', Fig. 4 isa side view similar to Fig. 3, but taken at the opposite side of the wire guiding or supporting devices Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view taken `vertically the wire guiding or supporting devices and also through the lateral supporting arm of the machine whereon said devices are secured and showing certain features of construction which will be hereinafter described, and Fig.

a citizen of the United States, residing 1 l lmprovements in Hat-Frame Machines, of

rovidel character o a simn ple and comparatively inexpensive nature, durable con#l struction having certain features of novelty.

ertaining to the hat wire guiding or supportwhereby he improved machine nt and ac-l and a material economy` l notches 12,

6 is an enlarged plan view of the wire supporting or guiding devices as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, together with the means for holding said devices upon the lateral arm of the machine.

As shown in these views, the machine comprises a base 1. whereon is held for turning or rotative movement a pedestal 2, the upper end of which carries a circular table or head divided into two sections 3 and 4, the section 3 lbeing secured to the pedestal 2, while the opposite section 4 is hinged as seen at 5 upon the section 3, so as to be adapted to be raised and lowered in a well known way for disengaging the wire guiding or supporting devices from the hat frame after the latter shall have been completed.

U on the circular head or table formed of `the inge-connected sections 3 and 4 are produced radially extended arms 6',` 6, herein shown as eight in number. The arms 6, 6, are evenly .spaced around the head or table and are integrally formed with the respective sections 3 and 4 from which such arms are extended. rlhere is no particular novelty in the construction above described, and for that reason such construction is not claimed herein, nor is the present invention iii-any way limited to use in connection with such construction.

The arms 6, 6 are provided with longitudinal slotted openings 7, 7, one of which is herein shown u on each such arm, and each of such slotte openings 7 is adapted for .the passage of two bolts 8, 8 each having at one end ahead or enlargement 9, while its opposite end is made screw-threaded to receive a nut 10.

11 represents a carrying member formed from flat or plate metal, and provided at its lower edge with s aced notches 12, 12 which are adapted to e slipped down over the lShanks of the bolts 8, 8, of one of the arms 6,

so that said plate or member 11 may be fitted flush against the side of such arm 6, in position to be clamped and securely held thereon by the pressure of the heads 9, 9, of said bolts 8, 8, when the nuts 10, 10, of the said bolts shall have been tightened to effect this result. inthe accompanying drawings only one of the arms 6 of the machine is shown provided with the member or plate 11, but it will be understood that in the operation of the machine such a plate or member 11 will be clamped upon each of said arms 6. The 12 of each plate 11 are reversely inclined so that as the plate is slip ed over the bolts 8, 8, the inclination of saidp notches will serve to ress the said bolts in opposite directions and) in secure contact with the ends of the slotted opening 7.

The plate or member 11 has an upper edge portion which is adapted, when the member said arm, as clearly shown on the drawings at 14, and such upwardly extended portion 14 is provided with a horizontally extended slotted yopening 15, alined with the length of said arm 6, and adapted one or more bolts 17, there being bolts herein shown as passed through said slotted opening.

16 bearing upon one side of ber 11, their opposite ends being screwthreaded to receive nuts 19.

v 18 and 20, represent washers held upon the bolts 17, and 21, 21, represent the slotted body portions of the at wire guides or su ports, each of which is l3 the plate or ineinway. 'Ifhe inF ` clamping screws 8.

lin I n t e operation of the machine, the carryplace during the manufacture of the hat frames. The slotted openings 15 in the plates or members 11 p mit the screws 17 to be adjusted toward or removed are to be laid aside until such t linie as other hat frames of the style to which such parts are adjusted are to be made upon plurality of sets and of the wire be adjusted for making parts may 1 supports car a special style of frame so that by simply detaching the p of one of such sets from tl placing them with another set, the niacl may be adapted for making any style of frame which may be desired without re s oi' member.

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again l be seen that a s 1 1 ried nd each set niav hait arts ie machine and rciine hat quiiing loss of time such as occurs where the wire supports or guides ai'e se -for each particular lot of hats to be mad This construction of the machine with tachable carrying mein guides'or supports affords a ma omy in the manufactu with frequent parts, and dispenses wit particular skill beis for t re by reason of adjustment of h the necessity of parately adjusted lie hat wire terial ecoiidisthe any or caie on the part of the operator in changing the machine from one` style of hat frame to sures greater uniformity in the output of the machine than is possible where justinent of the parts is of hat frames made.

separate required foi eacl adi lot From the above description it will be eviliat frame machine is nt that the improved of an extremely simple and coni and is p adapted for use by reason of output a and it will also be obvious fr inexpensive nature and uniformit f scription that the device is su paratively articularly well of the economy ttained thereby, om the above desceptible of some modification without material depaiture .from the set forth in carrying practice.

principles and spirit of the in- Having thus described my invention, what I claimand desire to secure by Letters Pat ent is 1. A hat frame machine coiiiprisiii supporting members one of said arms and ch arni, each extended along having its opposite ends side detacliably held thereto by sai( fastening devices, and wire gui des ad upon the supporting neinbei's.

2. A hat frame having radially nected in a plurality of being mov each group frame machine coniprisin justably held groups, the arin sof tively to those of another group, spaced fastening devices carried by each such arm, supided with longitu( portmg members prov nally extended slotted porting member being openings, each supextended along side one of the radially extended arms and-having ed for engagement with the bolts at op osite its opposite ends detachably held thereto by ends of the slot of thecorresponding s otted the spaced fastening devices, Wire guides, and framev portion, the reverse inclinations of the bolts adjustably held in the slots of the -renotches of each supporting member being 5 spective su porting members and each adapted to force the bolts engaged therewith adapted to old a plurality .of Wire guides l toward opposite ends of the s ot wherein said adjustably in relation to the corresponding bolts are arranged, and Wire guides adjustsupporting member. ably held upon the su orting members.

3. A hat frame machine comprising a In Witness Whereoi1 have hereunto signed 10 frame having slotted portions7 fastening demy name this 30th day ofAugust 1907, in the vices comprising bolts arranged at opposite presence of two subscribing Witnesses. ends oi the slot of each slotted frame portion, ALFRED E HOERMANN and nuts having threaded engagement with the bolts, supporting members each extended Witnesses: 15 alongside one of the slotted frame portions ALBERT E. HOPPE, and having reversely inclined notches adapt- JEROME EIsNER. 

